Monitor your Elasitcsearch Cluster with Grafana and Prometheus

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Monitoring Elasticsearch Cluster is necessary and important for both testing and production. Kibana and Grafana are awesome tools for monitoring and visualization. In this post, I’ll introduce how to monitor Elasticsearch Cluster by using Grafana with datasource is Prometheus.

1. Requirements

  • Grafana: awesome tool for visualization.
  • Prometheus: best datasource for Grafana.
  • Elasticsearch Exporter: export metrics from Elasticsearch to Prometheus.
  • Elasticsearch Cluster: cluster we want to monitor.

The following image is the architecture how we setup

2. Grafana Dashboards

I published my dashboards to Grafana Dashboards so you can easily import these dashboards to your Grafana.

2.1. Cluster Stats Dashboard

ES Cluster Stats

2.2. Node Stats Dashboard

ES Node Stats

2.3. Index Stats Dashboard

ES Index Stats

2.4. History Stats Dashboard

ES History Stats

3. Conclusion

I have shown you how to monitor Elasticsearch Cluster by using Grafana and Prometheus.

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